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Representativeness of global lidar and radar climate record on clouds

2017/25/B/ST10/01787

Keywords:

remote sensing clouds global cloud cover laser lidar radar reliability representativeness calipso cloudsat modis

Descriptors:

  • ST10_12: Geodesy, cartography, geographic information systems, Earth observations from space and by remote sensing
  • ST10_2: Climatology, meteorology, climate change

Panel:

ST10 - Earth sciences: Earth system science, atmospheric sciences, climatology, geochemistry, geodesy, geoecology, geophysics, physical geography, geoinformatics, planetary geology, pedology, mining, chemical and physical oceanology, environmental protection

Host institution :

Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Andrzej Kotarba 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: OPUS 13 - announced on 2017-03-15

Amount awarded: 489 700 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-01-09

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-01-08

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Komputery osobiste klasy desktop (33 000 PLN)
  2. Lokalny serwer plików (15 700 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (6)
  1. Calibration of global MODIS cloud amount using CALIOP cloud profiles
    Authors:
    Kotarba, A.Z.
    Academic press:
    Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (rok: 2020, tom: 13, strony: 4995-5012), Wydawca: European Geosciences Union
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5194/amt-13-4995-2020 - link to the publication
  2. Accuracy of cirrus detection by surface-based human observers
    Authors:
    Kotarba, A.Z., Nguyen Huu, Ż.,
    Academic press:
    Journal of Climate , Wydawca: American Meteorological Society
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
    DOI:
    10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0430.1 - link to the publication
  3. Errors in global cloud climatology due to transect sampling with the CALIPSO satellite lidar mission
    Authors:
    Kotarba, A.Z.
    Academic press:
    Atmospheric Research , Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
  4. Uncertainty Assessment of the Vertically-Resolved Cloud Amount for Joint CloudSat-CALIPSO Radar-Lidar Observations
    Authors:
    Kotarba, A.Z., Solecki, M.
    Academic press:
    Remote Sensing (rok: 2021, tom: 13, strony: 45307), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/rs13040807 - link to the publication
  5. Impact of the revisit frequency on cloud climatology for CALIPSO, EarthCARE, Aeolus, and ICESat-2 satellite lidar missions
    Authors:
    Kotarba, A.Z.
    Academic press:
    Atmospheric Measurement Techniques , Wydawca: European Geosciences Union
    Status:
    Submitted
    DOI:
    10.5194/amt-2022-80 - link to the publication
  6. Reliability of visual detections of cirrus over Poland
    Authors:
    Nguyen Huu, Ż., Kotarba, A.Z.
    Academic press:
    Theoretical and Applied Climatology (rok: 2021, tom: not assigned, strony: 45302), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s00704-020-03494-9 - link to the publication